App of the week: Any.do

In a nutshell: With all our digital inputs these days, it's worth looking for a little help organizing them all. Any.do tries to help you out. The beauty of the app and browser extension is the simplicity in helping you manage your daily tasks and chores.

Cool factor: Any.do integrates with your Gmail and other e-mail clients when you install the browser extension. But what's great is that it has pretty decent algorithms that guess how you might want to follow up to an e-mail. If your friend e-mails you about sending ingredients to pick up for dinner, Any.do will try to guess what your reminder needs to look like - i.e., "Respond to Mary about dinner" - so you don't have to type it out. Also, Any.do has pretty good speech recognition if you need to set a reminder hands-free.

Notes: As with most apps and extensions, you will have to give Any.do some access to your personal messages and correspondences. So you'll need to make that trade-off for an increase in efficiency. Oh, and they'll soon be launching an integration with your calendar.